"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."
That is the most intelligent thing I have ever heard someone from the entertainment industry say! School's Out for Summner!
Here's another classic:
From Samuel L. Jackson's June 1999 Playboy magazine interview:
PLAYBOY: Are you politically active?
JACKSON: I go to premieres, and folks start asking me,
"How do you feel about the president?" I think, What
the f**k do people care what I think about the president?
I'm an actor. All those actors out there stumping for
this candidate or that candidate, it's bulls**t. They
don't do anything past that. They raise some money
and they're out of there. Or they just voice their
opinion: "That Dalai Lama is my boy."
PLAYBOY: So your soapbox message is for celebrities to
get off their soapboxes?
JACKSON: Just pay your taxes. Stop standing up and
saying, "We need to lend our money to so-and-so."
You make $20 million a picture. Shut the f**k up and
give them a million dollars. Don't ask Joe Everyday
for $5. He might need that $5. You've got money to
burn. I don't like giving my political opinions.
[...]
The more of a grasp I can have of myself as an
everyday guy who just happens to have an unusual job,
the better off my life is going to be. I don't think
I'm extraordinary.
And then later:
"...but when people give me this bulls**t thing
about being a role model [through his choice of
acting roles] and my effect on society, I say bulls**t
to you. If people want to know if I'm a role model,
they should know that I've been married to the same
woman for 19 years, I drove my daughter's car pool
until she started driving, I help her with her
homework. I make up beds, I take out the garbage.
I graduated from college, I can read and write. I can
speak correctly. I treat everyone with respect.
I pay my taxes. I've never been to jail. I think
that's the stuff of a role model.